Silent cinema : an introduction / Paolo Cherchi Usai ; new preface by David Robinson ; preface to the first English edition by Kevin Brownlow.
"Published for the first time in English in 1994 as Burning Passions, Cherchi Usai's groundbreaking guide to silent film studies has become the indispensable textbook for scholars, researchers, and archivists. This much-awaited sequel to the first edition has been extensively rewritten and...
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| Language: | English Italian |
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2000.
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| Summary: | "Published for the first time in English in 1994 as Burning Passions, Cherchi Usai's groundbreaking guide to silent film studies has become the indispensable textbook for scholars, researchers, and archivists. This much-awaited sequel to the first edition has been extensively rewritten and updated in order to reflect the spectacular development witnessed by the discipline in the past few years. In addition, two new chapters have been added for this edition. The first is an extensive analysis of color technology and aesthetics, from hand-coloring to the dawn of Technicolor. The second is a detailed account of how silent films are saved from destruction, restored, and made accessible by film archives. A number of new illustrations, tables, bibliographical references and historical sources add additional value to this fundamental survey of the first thirty years in the history of the moving image."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally translated by Emma Sansone Rittle but largely modified and added to by the author for this edition"--T.p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 212 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0851707459 9780851707457 0851707467 9780851707464 |